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Tree worker falls out of bucket truck

The Lowell Sun

Updated:
11/18/2016 08:11:53 AM EST

A worker cutting branches on Douglas Terrace in Lowell was ejected from his work bucket when the piston broke on the crane. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment of undisclosed injuries.
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Sun Staff Report

LOWELL -- A worker cutting branches off a tree was ejected from a tree-crane bucket on Thursday, sending him to the hospital with undisclosed injuries.

The employee for J. Dumais Tree Service was working on trees at 41 Douglas Terrace when the bucket equipment broke; the piston broke off the tree crane, and the man was ejected from the bucket.

"The worker was conscious and alert, sitting up," Lowell Police Capt. Timothy Crowley said in an email. "He had injuries to his hip, leg, back, neck and head. Nothing life-threatening."

The 51-year-old Lowell man was transported to Lowell General Hospital, according to Crowley. He added that he had not checked with the worker on whether he could release his name.

"The guy is conscious, that's all that matters," commented a tree-service worker when a Sun reporter arrived at the scene. The workers did not want to comment further.

An employee for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration interviewed the tree-service workers on Douglas Terrace, which is in the city's Belvidere section near Cawley Memorial Stadium.

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